What would you do if another upstream provider came to you and offered you a connection for more than half of the price? You have to lead, follow, or get out of the way. If you sit on you $35/mo for 768k and do not offer a faster tier or lower your prices you will lose subs. As much as customers will tell you they love you for your local service or personal touch they will eventually fall for the Wal-Mart mentality and switch.
Richey -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Steven G McGehee Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:24 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] how to compete with $15 DSL Hi Kurt, What we decided to do a few years ago was let the residential users "go," basically. We knew we couldn't compete with the telcos/cable co. increasingly lower prices so our sales guys (I'm a tech) changed tactics and just focused on businesses -- offering them multi-megabit upstream speeds, carrier grade uptime with SLAs whereby they get a credit for every hour they're down (which is quite rare, but customers like the sound of it). We often also throw offer a second backup wireless link (usually connecting on to a different PoP on a different frequency) and setup EIGRP for them. Hosting/email services/24-7 monitoring/colocation/voip are on the menu too so those get put into negotiations with the potential clients. Residential users don't have a need for a lot of that though, so we too were wondering how to compete. While we still do dialup/DSL for them, our strategy was to go for the businesses...a few years behind us, we're happy with that decision. Good luck! -Steven Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > Local phone company here just expanded their DSL coverage area and > mailed out fliers to everyone for $15 DSL. I see no mention of it > being a promotional price. One person said as long as you have it they > will not raise the rate from $15. Think its for 768k service. Anyways > we are getting about 1 person a day switching from our $35/month/768k > wireless service to this DSL. Does anyone have any suggestions as to > how to retain these customers???? They are not even giving us a chance > to offer them a lower price as they all already have the DSL turned on > and been using it for a month before they cancel ours. > > > > Kurt Fankhauser > WAVELINC > P.O. Box 126 > Bucyrus, OH 44820 > 419-562-6405 > www.wavelinc.com > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/